I made a new summer underquilt with fleece on the inside and a 1.1 oz nylon shell. I guess the quick and easy part depends on whether you can inject thread or not... Took me about and hour and half including all the measuring, cutting, sewing, and running shock cord. It is 46" X 65" has one layer of fleece sewn to the inside of the nylon. I made chanels on all 4 sides when hemming the nylon. I put gros grain on the ends of the side chanels to help hold the pressure point where the shock cord exits the chanel. The end chanels have shock cord with cord locks so they can be vented or closed up. It weighs 15 oz and stuffs to about the size of a 2 litre drink bottle. (side note: anybody else think its funny we use the metric system for some of our drink stuff but everything else uses the standard system?) This is probably good down to 50 degrees or so, no testing yet. This one is actually the wife's. I will make mine either a little longer (full length like hers) or shorter 3/4 length. I like full length on 3 season/winter because of comfort and warmth, and the only reason I would do full length on a summer quilt is that I dont like feeling that shock cord on my feet(yeah I know picky, but hey, I can make it how I like it! ) It works good, but one mod I may have to make is adding attached cord locks to the ends of the side chanels. One problem with using just the nylon chanel and not a gros grain chanels is that the nylon bunches easy and quilt tends to want to slide down and buch up some in the middle. We havent used it enough to know if it will reall be a problem or not. She used it last weekend and it didn't really seem to be a problem once the hammock is occupied. Mainly it is an easy, cheap, lighter weight solution for warmer temps!
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